Obama Changed My Mind About McCain

Great American Journal ^ | February 24, 2008 | JR Dieckmann

[PlainOleAmerican]

This writer has it exactly right, no matter how much I'd love to cast a vote against McCain in the general election, just as I did in the primaries.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Obama is the only reason that I’m voting for McCain.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

I am glad to see that people are waking up to who Obama really is. I was looking at the FR Poll and couldn’t believe that 3.3% of Members said they would vote for Obama. That’s not much, but one (1) is too many.

[xjcsa]

I can understand conservatives who will vote for McCain to stop the Marxist Ubama, but I can’t do it. Every time I start to think about voting for McCain, he opens his mouth again, and I just don’t think we’re any better of with him. I’m just hoping and praying that somehow he ends up not being the nominee in the fall.

[RaceBannon]

Hillary is my other reason...

[ncalburt]

Me too .
Osama and his radical America and white hating wife scare the hell out of me.
Her comment about being scared when ever her husband goes into a convenient store reflects her real feelings about white people. And there Louis Farrakhan supporting church says it all !

[lookout88]

” can understand conservatives who will vote for McCain to stop the Marxist Ubama, but I can’t do it. Every time I start to think about voting for McCain, he opens his mouth again, and I just don’t think we’re any better of with him. I’m just hoping and praying that somehow he ends up not being the nominee in the fall.”

We all know how you feel. We lost. We lost getting a conservative in. We can’t get osama, though.

[TomGuy]

Well, this is McCain (from This Week, February 17, 2008) [emphasis added]:

STEPHANOPOULOS: How about on the issue of climate change? Because you and Sen. [Joe] Lieberman [I-Conn.] have come out for a bill which would have mandatory reductions in greenhouse gases.

MCCAIN: Gradual reductions, yes.

STEPHANOPOULOS: But they are mandatory.

MCCAIN: Yes.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Are you sticking by that?

MCCAIN: What I mean by that is that it's cap-and-trade, that there will be incentives for people to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It's a free-market approach. The Europeans are using it now. We did it in the case of addressing acid rain -- look, if we do that, we stimulate green technologies. I have great faith in the American industry. General Electric, the world's largest corporation, has announced they're dedicated to green technologies. This will be profit-making business.

It won't cost the American taxpayer. It will make profits, because we'll move forward with the innovation and ability of American industry to address this issue.

No wonder McCain admits he doesn't know much about economics. Who does he think is going to pay for GE making all that profit, since he says it isn't the American taxpyer? Will President McCain just mandate that profits will henceforth grow on trees?

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Yes, but it’s over for her. Besides, he’s even worse than Her Thighness.

[freekitty]

Words mean something and these people have yet to understand that.

[shortstop]

It will be hard for me to vote for McCain when I’m holding my nose with both hands.

[LiberConservative]

Obama is the only reason that I’m voting for McCain.

... and Osama/Obama's wife, Michelle. She pushed me to McCain. We think the Clintons are scary. These two are terrifying.

[SE Mom]

I agree with most of the piece. I am holding out on a “decision” to vote for McC til November...but I’m not as closed as I was 2-3 weeks ago..for the reason- the writer states- Obama.

We all need to understand this is NOT remotely like it was when Carter ws elected, ushering in the Reagan era. The times truly are DIFFERENT and the stakes higher than we even know.

Obamania is sweeping, enormous and should give us ALL cause for sober reflection.

[2harddrive]

Osama! Obama! He’ll make Big Gov yo’ Mama!

[TomGuy]

But in exchange for my vote for McCain, I want something in return. I want McCain's solemn oath to the American people that if elected, he will:

And that is what he has, thus far, refused to do -- sign on to a series of committments.

IIRC, he has yet to sign Senator Sessions' pledge regarding illegal immigration and borders.

The only 'comittal' is he acknowledgement that 'we must secure the borders'. Well 'secure the borders' is a rhetorical nothing phrase, unless it is place in context with 'how' and 'when'. Notice that McCain has never really said 'how' or 'when'. So, his admission that we need to 'secure the borders' is a lame political stunt.

[xjcsa]

We all know how you feel. We lost. We lost getting a conservative in. We can’t get osama, though.

We can't get McCain either.

[Charles Bronson Forever]

Any Freeper who believes McCain is worse than Obama or Hillary is out of his or her friggin’ my-and!!!!

[alice_in_bubbaland]

A lot of regular democrats are realizing this too.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

McCain will sell the U.S. down the river, maybe not as fast as Obama will, but it'll be a slow, agonizing death rather than a clean quick death under Obama.

It all depends on McCain's VP pick. If he chooses Mark Sanford or SD Governor Rounds, yeah, I'll hold my fricking nose again. But if he chooses Jeb Bush or Crist or another RINO, forget it.

[Grunthor]

I can understand your point of voting AGAINST the other guy, not for the Repub but ponder this; After 4 years of McCain rule we are still in Iraq, the 1st amendment is even further eroded perhaps even with things like government spies on FR, one or two American cities have gone up in nuclear flames because the President refused to waterboard a known terrorist in order to stop it in time and the Mexican-United States border no longer exists for any intents and/or purposes.

A conservative decides to challenge President McCain in 2012 for the nomination.

What is the liklihood of folks just like yourself coming out for that conservative? Or (more likely) would you people be telling us to stfu and sit down, we already have the Presidency, don’t rock the boat.